I have a caveat. I fully welcome the extra resources that the MMO has and the fact that the Navy is doing that. The Navy has been largely absent from monitoring recently, because it has been dealing with other border security issues. However, the difficulty is that that budget is mainly financed from the Brexit process. Many of us do not have a lot of faith given the fact that, as the Minister will know, Defra is always on the front line regarding budget cuts, and once we get through Brexit—if indeed we do— frankly, those extra budgets will disappear and we will be back to where we are, with all the enforcement challenges that we had prior to that. I am not asking the Minister for a reply but warning him, in case he stays in office.
Common Fisheries Policy and Animals (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Teverson
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 30 October 2019.
It occurred during Debates on delegated legislation on Common Fisheries Policy and Animals (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
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